By default, copy and paste of text from javax.swing.text.* components
seems to capture formatting.

Is there any way to turn this off within java, so that only the plain
text is copied, stripped of any formatting?

Why do I care? Pasting such java 1.4.2 formatted text crashes netscape
7.1 mail, and my app is such that the formatting really doesn't matter
outside of it.

If you have netscape 7.1 mail (winxp), you can reproduce this problem
by

1. start webstart app "The SwingSet Demo" at
http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/demos.html

2. go to "JEditorPane Html"

3. select some text

4. copy into a netscape mail message. It'll freeze.

Other apps (ms-word) accept the paste without problems.

I'm not sure if this is a swing bug or a netscape bug. It seems to me
like it's probably on the netscape side. But I suspect it might be
easier to work around on the java side, and copying unformatted text is
theoretically a generally useful thing.

Thanks!

Reinhard